B5 biodiesel to be sold nationwide from July 1

Starting from July 1, all petrol stations in the country will begin selling B5 biodiesel, when the Government mandate for the fuel comes into effect. The announcement was made earlier in the week by Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas, who told reporters that all 3,877 stations in the country will sell the fuel from then.

Coverage was extended to the Eastern Region comprising Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan in February this year, and now the programme has arrived in the Northern Region – the sector’s 789 stations in Perak, Kedah, Perlis and Penang will implement the mandate this month. The final phase of the B5 programme will be take place in July, when it is introduced in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan, according to Embas.

Following the nationwide introduction of B5 biodiesel, the government is set to mandate the use of B7 biodiesel – which increases the percentage of palm oil biodiesel in the blend to 7% – by January 2015.

Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

Maybe the cost of upgrading the oil refineries is too big. No immediate untung for our beloved PM. Remember that ptrnas is directly under the PM. Any untung ptrnas get, he can snatch it away. The new ptrnas president is kamceng with PM. The previous one, not so much, mr hasan merican. That’s why he got fired, bcoz didn’t give PM pocket money.

With euro4 diesel, there will be less harmful emission into the atmosphere. But govt don’t care about that. That’s why I laugh when they say they care about our “safety” when they want to launch the 12 years car life policy. Safety my foot, 2014, still standard is 2 airbags.

Biodiesel linked with palm oil industry. Sure got “special tax” that palm oil industry have to pay to the govt, in order for the palm oil to be included in the diesel. Example like, every 5 cent of palm oil sold to the public, 2 cent goes to govt pocket.

Maybe the cost of upgrading the oil refineries is too big. No immediate untung for our beloved PM. Remember that ptrnas is directly under the PM. Any untung ptrnas get, he can snatch it away. The new ptrnas president is kamceng with PM. The previous one, not so much, mr hasan merican. That’s why he got fired, bcoz didn’t give PM pocket money.

With euro4 diesel, there will be less harmful emission into the atmosphere. But govt don’t care about that. That’s why I laugh when they say they care about our “safety” when they want to launch the 12 years car life policy. Safety my foot, 2014, still standard is 2 airbags.

Biodiesel linked with palm oil industry. Sure got “special tax” that palm oil industry have to pay to the govt, in order for the palm oil to be included in the diesel. Example like, every 5 cent of palm oil sold to the public, 2 cent goes to govt pocket.

Yes. In Germany, the minimum percentage of biodiesel in transport diesel is set at 4.4%, including penalties if those rates are not reached. B5 is more or less the standard diesel fuel there. Therefore it can be used in all european diesel cars without problems.

Both singapore and thailand are on euro 4 and probably looking at euro 5 now especially singapore and here we are sitting and adding 5% and 2% of biodiesel to our crap euro 2M diesel. Very dissapointing like everything else here :(

Biasalah bro.. But can only eat our own dissatisfaction of the governing body of this beloved country. But beware, speak out loud and some pariah ppl might call us names and ask us go back our ancestor land or ask us to migrate. We compliant because we want our motherland to be prosperous and advance like other 1st world country. Same like when we scold our children for not doing well, we are actually care and want them to improve for better not worst. Sadly there are certain group of ppl who thinks complaining means not loving and i think they apply the same method on children upbringing. Thus, it leads to so many crime case and social unrest. Especially at night, all those monkeys will be riding motorbike to terrorize road user. How to improve if they are equipped with those 3rd world or worst, bronze age mentality? Such is life in our beloved country. 2 diff mentality in one lovely and beautiful country.

in your dream la bro. sorry to say. I also wished for cheaper car price when those on top were saying. But as they always love to say, “menifesto bukan janji” to opposition. They themselves are the same. well, do not believe 100% of what G will do. Look at our most recent case MH 370. See their way of handling the issue? u noe how competent they are.

The problem with biodiesel is, that it lacks lubrication properties. B90 or B100 is no problem for a Mercedes 911 lorry with an injection pressure of max. 15MPa, but it will be a problem for a modern turbo diesel with an injection pressure of 200MPa.

One of the main reason why the govt still have not introduced Euro4 diesel is due to the subsidy.. If they are to subsidizing any diesel, we might even have Euro5 or 6 grade by now. Cost is the main consideration and govt doesn’t want to pay more

They could allow Euro4 or Euro5, but unsubsidized. Those who want/need it can use it, even though they will have to pay a premium. In Europe at least in some countries diesel for lorries is offered as well as proper good quality diesel for cars, the latter costing more.

The owners of 320d, 520d and all the expensive cars on diesel …. good luck to you mate ! Higher maintainence cost in the future …. plus lousy resale value thanks to the Euro 2 diesel …. what more now with B5 + Euro 2 diesel

I am sad to hear Malaysia government refused to barge even on Euro 4 diesel, Thailand and Singapore are already looking at Euro 6 diesel and vehicles. Singapore is currently trying its best to retire those non-Euro compliant diesels vehicles on the road

Dont need to be sad. Just get used to it when our country is run by a bunch of “think they know what are they doing” kind of clowns. Sad is Malaysia is a laughing stock to the whole wide world. And, dont compare Sg and Th to My. Coz our neighbour has a G that serve the ppl even though they are flaws.

Since you guys are on the B5 issue, I was wondering when more euro diesel vehicle comes in, namely the 320d, 520d and the grey import, would it be feasible to have an “unsubsidized euro 4” diesel pumps in the city areas in Malaysia? I think maybe the Goverment could think of this and implementing if it’s really feasible.

Theoritically biodiesel in our country should be very cheap because it comes from plant that we ourselves can grow such as palm oil and jathropa curcas, and yes guys, if you haven’t notice, we are blessed that our climate can grow biofuel plants easily all year round, something temperate countries envy because they can only produce biofuel from soya, corn etc etc which also competes its uses for food and couldn’t be planted all year round which makes it even more expensive to grow. However, due to it’s low consumption as it is not widely used (yet), the cost of processing and refining it makes the overall price seems to be expensive. As technology improves and moves forward, I’m sure the quality of engine ouput improves overtime, that’s why engineers go to universities do research and get their phd if I’m not mistaken and if you guys realize, it’s the diesel engines that ‘moves’ the world from ships to trucks and trains. Even the machines in world war 2 used jathropa curcas as source of diesel in Africa for German army, yes the Germans are already ahead than us even in biofuel since WW2. Dream a day where we can use 100% biofuel for our daily commute guys! Now stop being so negative and look ahead pls.

processing biodiesel is more expensive than diesel leh…government such as indonesia force ppl to use them cos it will decrease the cpo stocks, cos our palm oil is one of those oil that you gotta process asap once you harvest, unlike soy bean. jathropa has random maturity rate and produces toxic once it is processed, so dont use em. palm oil is the best yield per hectare

biodiesel yes cleaner, less power cos kcal lower, BUT it will eat your gaskets once it reaches a certain amount of mixture. methyl ester can be a very good cleaning agent anyway.

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